Cotton-picking machine



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' corron-ncxme :mamma Application med-January 15, 1928. Serial Ro. 612,687;

This invention relates to a cotton picking machine, one of the objects being to provide a pneumatic cotton picker utilizing a number of gathering tubes carrying nozzles through which a suctio'n will be set up so that when one or more of thenozzles are placed against a boll of cotton the fibres will be sucked into the machine and deposited in asuitable g container provided therefor.

A further object is to provide means close i to each nozzle whereby suction through the` casing nozzle can be controlled readily by the operator.

Another object is to provide a cotton picking apparatus in the form of a complete 'unit ada ted to be placed on a wagon body or the e and whlch, when operated, will quickly fill the body with the harvested cotton.

With thel foregcing and other objects' in view which will appear. as the descriptionproceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that, within the scope of whatvis claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of 'the invention shown can be made without departin from the spirit of the invention.

In t e accom anying the preferred form of t e invention has n shown, In said drawings Figure 1 -is a side elevation of the cotton icking apparatus in position on a wagon Figure 2 vis airear elevation 'of the fan andthe manifoldat the intake side thereof. 1

Figure 3is a section f lIigure 4 is an end 'elevation of the mani- Figure 5 is an elevation'ofsone of the hose connections. .I 7 w Figura 6 is a viewof the connection taken atright angles to Figure 5. i Figure 7 is a side elevation of one'of the nozzles' Figure is a bottom plan view of the nozzle, a portion being broken away..

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a base on which is mounteda .motor 2 'preferably in the form of anexplosive engine. .A fan casing 3 is mounted on the base and the fan (not shown) therein is 'adapted to be driven from .pair of extension tubes.

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the motor by a belt or in any other-suitable `manner. The outlet portion 5 of the fan casing is coupled to a delivery pipe 6 .which is curved downwardly and opens through the base 1 so that cotton delivered from the fan casing will be directed into the wagon body 7 on which the base 1 is mounted. w

Secured to the inlet portionof the fan casing 3 is an intake manifold .compris' a tubular body 8 fromV the outer end which are extended tubular branches 9. To each of these branches' is attached a flexible tube 10 of any desired length and each tube has a connecting member 11 secured to the (ruter end thereof. As shown in Figures 1, 5 .and 6 each connectingmember is referably Y-shaped, the branches 12 thereo being connected to extension tubes 13.

connected to the free end of each extension tube is a tubular nozzle 14 connected by an elbow 15 to a flared or conicalhead 16. Formed in the nozzle 14 near the elbow is an air inlet opening 17 and a gate valve 18 is arranged within the nozzle and is adapted to close' theopening. A finer piece 19 is extended outwardly from t e gate valve and this valve is preferably connected to the nozzle by means of a hinge 20. i

As heretofore pointed outone nozzle is carried by each extension tube. The base 1 is to beplaced -on the body of a wagon and the wagon is to be drawn along a cotton field with one oplerator carryin two of the nozzles 14. In t e apparatusi ustrated five operators would be. necessa one for each en the engine 2 is lset in motion and the fan o rated a suction will be set up throu h y a of the tubes and the' air expelled im the fan casing will be directed into the body 7. The

".operators hold .the'nozizles 16 close to the cotton bollsto be icked and the suction will be suficient to mw the cotton into the casing 3 andthen blown into the body 7. Whenever it is desired to interru t the' suction throu h any one of the noz'z es the i of vhead 16.

w By providing an apparatus .such as described cotton can be -picked readily from :co `nozzles so that itl willbe sucked into the f two or more rows at one time and the cotton will be promptly drected into the body 7 W Thereafter the apparatns on the base 1 can be lifted ofl of the body, the wagon conveyed 5 from the field and the apparatus placed on another wagon body brought to position in the field.

What is claimed is 2-- Cotton picking apparatus includingl a 19 suction tube, a nozzle carried thereby having van opening in the wall thereof, a flap valve hingedly connected to the nozzle and mov- GUY E. BoGGs. 

